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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Why does the cli keep going to a
> >
> prompt in bash whenever I accidentally hit \ then enter?
> man bash
> / \
> gets me
> _Invalid pattern (press RETURN)
> no help for the gipper...
>
> V
>
Because it's a continuation keythingy. It allows you to continue a command
after typing enter (like c):
[me@myplace /usr]$ ls -laRt | \
> grep "Jan" |\
> sed -e\
> '/^-d/d' 1>&2 >\
> foo
What something like that would look like in a single command is:
[me@myplace /usr]$ ls -laRt | grep "Jan" | sed -e '/^-d/d' 1>&2 > foo
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